From: lesliegraham3515@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:52:10 UTC+13, The Phantom Piper  wrote:   
   > On Friday, February 23, 2018 at 1:58:51 AM UTC-8, Adam Whyte-Settlar wrote:   
   > >    
   > > Hi Piper   
   >    
   > Not quite High yet - give me a minute...   
   >    
   > > Just found your reply about a year later.   
   >    
   > Just found yours 5 days after you posted it.  */:~}   
   >    
   > > Yep - looking at some of my 20 year old posts it's true   
   > > I warned them about the rise of the Tea Party and how   
   > > it would lead to some moronic right wing fascist fuckwit   
   > > being elected to the ringing cheers of the brainwashed   
   > > cretins.  In fact I've been right about so many of my   
   > > long range forecasts it's depressing.   
   >    
   > Yup.  Same here.  It's like that scene in 'Broadcast News'   
   > where Holly Hunter is asked sarcastically by her chauvinist   
   > boss if it isn't "great being right all the time" - to which   
   > she replies, "Oh no, it's just awful...it's just *awful*."   
   >    
   > > I'm Ok though. Decided to hole up in NZ. Don't fancy the   
   > > UK the way things are going.    
   >    
   > Let's see - do you mean the fact that the majority of people   
   > vote Labour+LibDem and get Tory as a result?  Or do you mean   
   > BrokesIt?     
      
   Just pretty much everything really. I hardly recognise the place as the   
   country I grew up in.   
   Just so much hate now. And superficiality. And yes - the one saving grace was   
   that my UK passport which I kept valid gave me access to about 18 countries in   
   Europe for as long as I wanted anytime I wanted. Now my Kiwi passport will be   
   more useful if they    
   actually go through with this blend of farce and economic suicide.   
   It's such a shame. The UK in the sixties - and even seventies - was still one   
   of the best places to live in the world. Alive and optimistic. Now it just   
   seems sad and litter strewn and hopeless.   
   Fucking food banks for fuck's sake! In Britain in 2018! Where is the outrage?   
      
   New Zealand has it's own set of problems but it's a paradise compared to parts   
   of the UK. I had planned to move back to Scotland if we got independence - and   
   what do we get - Brexshit.   
   I still visit - and wonder at the soft light - but I can't see any reason to   
   return now.    
   On the bright side I'm doing great down here. Got my own property renovation   
   business with a good team of six guys and a woman working for me. Took me a   
   couple of years to build it up from nothing again. We had spent all our   
   savings on travel and even    
   maxed out the cards when we came back here. The area also has the highest   
   unemployment rate etc in the country so it wasn't easy to begin with. But as   
   you might recall, I've made and spent several fortunes in my life so making   
   another one just becomes    
   second nature.   
      
   Hope you and any of the old gang who might stumble on this post are doing well.   
   I don't use Facebook - not my style either. I won't use any medium that is   
   censored so I'm kind of limited now.   
      
   All the best.   
      
   The Adorable   
   Adam Whyte-Settlar   
      
      
      
   Don't worry, maybe you'll get to see Kiwexit if   
   > you just hang about there long enough.   
   >    
   >    
   > Not Putting Anything Past Homo Saps,   
   >    
   > The Phantom Piper   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)